FILM

Colossal Youth chronicles Ventura, the towering Cape Verdean who has assumed the role of surrogate “father” to an untold number of characters around Lisbon and its now-razed neighbourhood of Fontaínhas. Through Ventura’s visitations to such figures as Vanda Duarte (the central character in Costa’s In Vanda’s Room) and repeated recollections of his past life as a newly migrated manual labourer, Costa explores the nature, and the necessity, of storytelling in the course of the human adventure.